BULL'S
HEAD, symbol of
the death penalty, indicating imminent execution

BUN,
small barrel

BUNSUCKEN,
bound in service to a pre-designated mill

BURCHT,
burght,
burgh

BURD
CLOTH, a
table cloth.

BURDINER,
guarantor assuming financial responsibility for another

BURDING,
burden.

BURGAGE,
burgh law. a form of tenure under which land in a royal burgh is held by the
king or Queen (or the land itself)

BURGESS
AIR, the heir of
a burgess.

BURGESS
TICKET, the
document conferring the freedom of a burgh to an individual.

BURGH
COURT, town or
burgh tribunal

BURGH
LAW, town law,
based on the early 15th system

BURGH
RUDIS, land under
cultivation belonging to the town

BURNIS,
brooks, streams, or burns

BURNLEDER,
a
water-carrier

BUROUSTOUNIS
borough-towns

BURRYMAN,
scapegoat for all the ills befalling a community

BUSH,
vessel used to carry cargo, or occasionally for fishing

BUTTERMAN,
one who trades in butter

BY,
apart from

BYER
cow shed

BYGOTTIN,
illegitimate

BYRONIS,
arrears.

CADDIE,
a military cadet

CADUCIAR,
subject to, by
means of

CAIBE,
cabinet maker

CAIRD,
tinker, pot-mender, one who travels the country

CAIRT,
cart, a ship's chart or a cart.

CAIRTER,
carter

CALLAN,
girl

CALSAY,
causeway, street

CANDAVAIG,
type of salmon

CANDLEMAS,
2nd of February, a Scottish quarter day The days on which farm contracts,
leases, rents began and ended.

CANNONAR,
cannoneer, one who fires a cannon

CANNY,
canvas

CANOUS,
grey-haired

CAPE,
a privateer. Caping, capring,
privateering

CAPELLANE,
cheplaine,
a chaplain

CAPER,
bread or oatcake with butter and cheese , on the other hand could be used as a
term for a Pirate's vessel, privateer

CAPITANRY,
captaincy

CAPPER,
copper

CAPTION,
arrest. Captour; a
court-appointed official or person to apprehend criminals

CARAGE,
carraige,
a form of servitude by which a tenant was bound to carry for the proprietor a
stipulated quantity of coals, grain, etc., or to serve him with men and horses a
certain number of days in the year. This could also be done as a payment
in kind

CARDOW,
work illegally in a trade without being a freeman,

CARDOWER,
an illegal worker in trade or a travelling tinker or tradesman could also
describe a travelling tailor

CASTELLWARD,
payment in lieu of the required feudal service of guarding a castle

CASTING
UP THE HERETAGE,
to do a deed that is against the history of the land

CASUALTY,
miscellaneous item of revenue due from a tenant under certain circumstances

CATERAN,
an outlaw or group of outlaws

CATHEAD,
poor quality ironstone

CAUSEY
PAIKER,
prostitute

CAUTIONER,
surety

CAVEL,
a division, share of property, assigned by lot

CEDENT,
an individual who assigns property to another

CERTIORAT(E),
certified

CESSIO
BONORUM, legal
process enabling a debtor to avoid prison by surrendering all his means, on the
assumption that he was not guilty of fraud

CESSIONER,
an individual who is in receipt of property that has been ceded by another

CHAKKERAW,
the Exchequer Row ; and also a chequered cloth or chess board.

CHALDER,
a measure of sixteen bolls.

CHALLENDER, maker
of coverlets

CHALLOP,
large boat

CHAMBER
IRON CHIMNEY, an
iron grate for a room.

CHAMBERLAIN, a
principal officer of the Scottish Royal household also describes the circuit
court presided over by the chamberlain.

CHAMLET,
light cloak, garment

CHAMPART,
the share of produce due under the feudal system a tythe

CHAPLAINRY,
chaplaincy

CHAPTANE,
captain

CHARGER,
plaintiff

CHARPENTEIR,
carpenter

CHARTER,
a document of title, grant from the crown, the conveyance of an estate.

CHARTEROUR, a
Carthusian

CHAUMER,
chalmirleir,
chambermaid. Chaumercheild,
valet

CHECK
WHEEL, a wheel
for spinning lint,

CHEIFFIS,
chiefs

CHEKKER,
official
auditor appointed to hear court cases relating to royal revenues

CHESTON,
chestnut

CHETERY,
land reverting to
the feudal lord when the tenant died intestate

CHILDER,
ordinary sailors, hands on ship or people in general

CHILDIR,
cheldyr,
children

CHIMNEY
CREWKES, hooks
for hanging pots over the fire.

CHIMNEY
GALLOWES,
projecting beam on which to hang pots and pans

CHIMNEY
SPEEL, a spit for
roasting.

CHIRURGEON, a
surgeon. taken from the Greek, meaning a worker with the hand.

CHOPIN
a quart measure.

CHOPIS
BAK, back shops.

CHRISTIN,
a Christian. also
used to describe Christmas

CHYMNA,
chimney.

CINQUEFOIL, a
charge in heraldry, consisting of five leaves.

CIRURGYEN,
surgeon.

CISTEUS,
a Cistercian

CITAT,
cited

CITE,
city.

CITINAR,
citinares, citizen(s), people

CLAG
claim against property

CLAIS,
claiths, clothes.

CLAMANT,
demand for redress

CLAP DYKE,
wall for drainage, usually turf or earth

CLAYTH
cloth

CLEARANCES, the
practice of removing tenants from land, mainly to enlarge and improve farming
efficiency (Highlands Clearences), when many of the families went to the new
worlds

CLED,
provided

CLEIT,
small stone construction for drying peat

CLEME,
claim

CLEPE AND
CALL, a court
summons

CLOUT,
small piece of land

CLUB,
an apprentice, usually in shoemaking, who is not yet a freeman

COAD
(cod), pillow or cushion; COADWAIR pillow slip or cushion
cover.

COAL
FAULD, coal yard.
Coll bearer; a woman who carryies
the coal on her back from the coal face to the surface. Coll heuch, a mine. Collever, coal-carrying horse

COBLE
a small craft or fishing boat ; or of a kiln, a vessel for steeping malt.

COCKET
, a certificate under the seal of the proper officer that the customs have been
paid on goods exported from such and such a post. Clerk of cocquet, or coqueter, isthe
officer who grants the certificates.

COFE,
an exchange

COFT,
bought

COGNITION,
the magisterial act of recognizing an heir, as entitled to be seized in
property. Thus to be "cognosced heir
" is to be formally recognised as such.

COGSTER,
flax dresser

COLLAR,
hay sheaf maker

COLLEP,
a type of drinking vessel

COLLUM,
ship

COMBURGES,
co-burgess, fellow-burgess.

COMMISSARIOT,
local registry for confirmation or probate of wills and for grants of
administration, a commissary,
isthe officer making the confirmation or grant.

COMMIXTION,
Mixing together of property of various owners, with varying effect on the
owners' rights.

COMMODITIES,
benefits stemming from the possession/use of property

COMPEAR,
to appear, generally in a legal proceeding

COMPOSITOR, an arbitrator
in legal disputes , also a sum paid in settlement and also meaning
the agreement for settlement

COMPROMIT,
settlement or agreement

COMPT
account.

CONAND,
covenant

CONDESCEND,
to state the facts.

CONDUCE,
employ, take on, hire, employ

CONDUCK,
conduct,
water channel, a conduit

CONFIRMATION OF A GRANT,
Confirmation of a charter by an overlord or superior.

CONJUNCT,
joint ; e.g. conjunct feftment,
fee shared jointly, conjunct fiar,
ownership of land by more than one party. Another use of this term is
connected by blood - family, kin

CONNEX, appurtenances, items, dealingsconnected with an
estate

CONNOTAR,
a public notary acting in conjuction with another

CONQUEISH, to conquer ; to acquire property by purchase,
donation or exchange, or by other means as opposed to by inheritance.

CONQUEST, HEIR OF,
an heir succeeding not by descent from the predecessor but by ascent, as
representing an older line, e.g., when the second of three brothers or his heir
dies, the youngest succeeded to the heretable but the eldest to the conquest
property. The distinction between heritage and conquest was abolished in 1874.

CONSANGUINEAN,
A brother or sister who has the same father but not the same mother. - now
called a step sister or brother

CONTORAR,
Contrary.

CONTRACTED,
betrothed, and in Scotland legally equivalent to marriage; consent being legally
enough, and the public ceremony of marriage being introduced in order to make so
important a contract known, though through the eyes of the law was not essential
- the contract was enough

COOKIE,
prostitute

COP,
cup used as liquid or grain measure

COPER GUIS PAN,
a large copper pan for cooking geese.

CORDINER,
cordwainer, shoemaker, normally one who works in fine materials and produced
high quality wares

CORNEL,
colonel

CORONELL,
coroner

CORSHOUS,
building standing crossways to the others, possibly at a 90 deg angle

COSE an exchange, usually of lands.

COSNANT,
wages without board

COST SIDE,
coastal, near the sea

COT,
coat.

COTHOUSE,
small cottage, labourer's house

COTTAR, cotter,
tenant occupying farm cottage, sometimes with a small plot of land, in return
for labouring on the farm Cottar land,
land attached to a cottage

COUNCILLOR,
counsellor, town councillor

COUNTERMAISTER,
ship's mate

COUP,
a basked used to catch salmon and can also be used t describe an enclosed
cart used to carry manure, or earth. Another description is that of a cup

COUPER,
herring dealer

COURS
(linen), coarse.

COURT PLAINT,
the feudal privilege of dealing with complaints made to a court

COURTEN ROADS,
curtain-rods or curtain poles

COURTESY,
liferent, entitlement to income from the heritage of a deceased

COWCLINK,
prostitute

CRANIS,
a crane of herrings is a
barrelful of unsalted herrings.

CRANNOG,
ancient lake dwelling, sometimes having an island offshore accessable by a
narrow strip of land

CREAR,
small merchant vessel

CREEL,
wicker basket for fish.

CREEP
crèpe.

CREVE,
petition for one's right

CRIMPSON,
crimson

CRO,
financial compensation, recompense for a killing that has taken place

CROFT,
a small piece of land adjoining a house

CROSS DWELLING,
lodging.

CROWDIE-MOWDIE,
a concoction of oatmeal and water eaten uncooked

CROWNES OF THE SUN
French coins, so-called from the mint mark ; value about fourteen shillings.
Could also be names as one of the French kings was called 'the sun king'

CRUE, croy,
hovel

CRUK,
circle, hook.

CRYIT FAIR,
fair with a public proclamation in advance

CUCH BED,
a couch bed.

CUIK, cook

CULLOUR,
colour

CULTELLAR,
cutler

CULVERING,
A handgun but can also be used to describe a large cannon

CUMMER,
kimmer, witch

CUMPTOUR,
An accountant.

CUNIGAR,
rabbit warren

CUNNAR,
ale taster

CUNYIE,
corner plot of land

CUNZEHOUS,
the mint

CURATOR, guardian of an infant between fourteen
and twenty-one years of age, as opposed to
tutor, guardian of a child under fourteen.

CURATOR AD LITEM,
guardian of a minor in a suit or of a wife in a process against her husband.

CURRACH,
coracle

CURROUR,
Forest warden

CUSSING,
cousin.

CUSTOMAR,
collector of customs monies and dues.

CUTHILL,
a wood

CUTTER,
someone who cuts down trees for wood without permission

DAILIS,
ewes that miss lambing and are fattened for the slaughter

DEALL,
a board of deal or pine wood.

DEATHBED, law of,
the law by which an heir could cancel deeds made to his disadvantage by a
terminally-heir predecessor within the 60 days prior to his death.

DEBATABLE,
specifically with reference to land and boundaries, subject to dispute.

DECERNED,
decreed.

DECREET, judgment of the Court

DEDE, deid,
deed, a document or the death of a person

DEFENDER,
defendant in a legal arguement

DEFORCEMENT,
occupying property belonging to another ; also resisting the officers of the law
in the execution of their duty.

DELATED,
accused at law.

DELIVERANCE,
judgment.

DEMITTIT,
dismissed, resigned

DEPONE,
depose, give evidence or an make oath.

DEPUTE,
deputy appointed by the crown

DEVIDING,
formal division of lands or property

DEVOID , vacate land or property

DEW SERVICE , service owed or carried out by a tenant on
behalf of the grantor of land

DEWITIE,
duty.

DILIGENCE,
legal proceedings involved in the enforcement of payments and the recovery of
debts. or could also be a court warrant to enforce the attendance of witnesses
or the production of documentation. In modern terms would be called a summons

DILMONDIS, two year old ram

DIRROGATIONE,
partial repeal of a law

DISCLAMATION,
renunciation of obligation by a tenant to the grantor of the tenancy

DISHERIS, disinherit

DISPONE,
dispose of, convey land, alienate.

DISSASINE,
dispossession

DISTITUT,
destitute.

DIUERS, various

DIUIDIT,
divided

DOCHTIR,
daughter

DOCQUET,
statement annexed to the document recording a transfer of property (sasine)
stating its authenticity

DOCUMENTIS,
teachings, instructions

DOMICILLIS,
dwellings.

DOMINICAL LANDS,
the mains or principal farm on an estate

DONATOR,
receiver of a donation

DORNICK
(dornyk), cloth wrought at
Tournay in France.

DOTE,
give or grant lands as an endowment

DUTY;
Service or payment to a feudal superior

DWELL,
of possessions, remains possessed by someone specific

EILD,
children of, issue.

EME,
uncle or near relative

ENGEL,
gold coin

ENGENERET, engendrit,
begotten

ENNYRNES,
Inverness Celtic term for Inverness

ENTER, inter,
to obtain, take possession of lands/property/office or to place someone in
possession of same

ENTRIE SILVER
dues paid on being entered in an estate as heir.

ERL,
earl

ESCHEAT, goods or estate forfeited or confiscated,
possibly on conviction of a crime, non-payment of debt.

ESCHET,
forfeiture (O. Fr. eschéoir, to fall out, fail).

EST,
east,

ESTAITIS,
estates (of the realm)

EVENAR,
the person apointed to apportion lands

EVIDENTS,
documents evidence of ownership, title deeds.

EXCAMB,
exchange

EXCRESCENS,
interest.

EXECUTOR-DATIVE,
person appointed by the court to execute a warrant.

EXECUTOR-NOMINATE,
person appointed by the testator to execute a warrant.

EXECUTRY,
the moveable property of a deceased person.

EXONER,
free from liability, to exonerate .

EYRN,
iron

FACTOR
(factory). attorney (power of
attorney) to manage affairs or the person empowered to acto on others
behalves; factrix, a female
factor

HORNING,
a writ under the signet obtained by a creditor ordering the debtor to pay or be
" at the horn."

HOUSE-MAILLS or MEALS,
house-rent; cp. black mail
Rent payable in cattle, labour or paid by coins other than silver.

HOSPITAL-MASTER,
keeper of the almshouse.

HOUSHALD,
household.

HOVISS,
house.

HOWFF,
hough, a burial ground, a
place of resort.

HUSBAND-LAND,
twenty-six acres of land ploughed by two oxen.

HYPOTHECATE,
mortgage to secure a debt.

HYRD, hird,
shepherd,

ILK, OF THAT,
of that place or race. Lat., de eodem, i.e., the name of the family and
estates are the same, e.g., Wedderburn of Wedderburn or Wedderburn of that ilk.
The right to be so called was granted by royal charter, and survives to the head
of the family even if the estate is lost. The mere identity of name with that of
the place owned (e.g., by purchase) does not give the right.

IMPLEMENT,
fulfilling, completion, to take action and do.

INCONTINENT AFTER OUR DECEISS,
without delay after our death.

INGLAND,
England inglis, the English

INHIBITION,
a writ under the signet prohibiting a debtor from parting with his heritage, or
burdening it.

INQUEST,
inquiry, before a jury as to a person has the right to succeed as heir to
a parent or relative.

INSTRUMENT,
legal document.

INTERDICT
(interdiction), inquisition.

INTERLOCUTOR,
(Scotish Law): A judgement or order of a court or of the Lords Ordinary, signed
by the pronouncing or presiding judge (short of the final judgement).
`Interlocutors, correctly speaking, are judgments or judicial orders pronounced
in the course of a suit, but which do not finally determine the cause. The term,
however, in Scotch practice, is applied indiscriminately to the judgments or
orders of the Court, or of the Lords Ordinary, whether they exhaust the question
at issue or not' (Dictionary of the Law of Scotland 1861).

INTERMEDDLE,
interfere, concern oneself with incorrectly, without due cause.

INTERRUPTION,
legal action to extend the length of time of a period of prescription .

INTERTAINER,
entertainer, guardian with whom a child lives.

INTRES THAIRTO,
interest in.

INTR0METTER,
person mixing himself up with the affairs of another, e.g., an executor; intro­mission, the act of so doing
to.

INTRUSIT,
intruded, interupted

INVENTAR,
invetar, inventory.

INVENTAR JUDICIAL,
inventory made by order of the court.

IRON BAK,
ash pan or basket of iron.

IRRITANCY, CLAUSE OF,
a clause in a document attaching a condition to a right, e.g., the bearing of a
specified name and arms as a condition of holding an estate, or the giving up of
one estate as the condition of succeeding to another.

MORTCLOTH DUES,
dues payable for the use of the public pall (death cloth) at a funeral.

MORTIFYED MONEY,
money left by dead persons in charity.

MOYR,
mother. See s. Fayr.

MUCK,
dung, manure.

MUIR,
moor.

MUIS,
bushels, measures.

MUKED
(of land), mucked, manured.

MULLER,
moulded work, frame of a picture ; cp.
Mullion.

MULTURE,
multour, dewetie, payment in
grain and money for having corn ground.

MUTCKIN,
a pint (English).

MYLNE, myl,
mill.

MYLE,
mile.

MYRE,
marsh.

NACKET.
Fr., nacquet, the lad that marks at tennis. Hence lacquey, insignificant person. Nackety means "conceited:”
Another word "nacket” means a
bit of stone used in the game of shinty, and is also used to describe a
small quantity of snuff

NAIGIS,
nags, small horses.

NAPERY
(naperie, naprie), table
linen.

NEUO,
nephew.

NOLTS' TONGUES,
neats' (cow or bullock)
tongues.

NONENTRY MAILLS, GIFT OF,
the rents of lands in the hands of the superior till the heir is able to assume
possession.

NORTHT, northin,
northern, northtest,
N.E., nortuest,
N.W.

NOTARIAL DOCKET,
the notary's certificate at the end of an instrument.

NOTARIAL INSTRUMENT,
deed drawn by a notary.

NOTARIAL SYMBOL,
the sign used by a notary for distinction.

NOVODAMUS, CHARTER OF,
renewal of feudal grant by charter, with some alteration or addition.

NYCHTBOUR,
neighbour.

OASTLAIR,
master of an inn, host; hence ostler.

OBLIGEMENT,
bond, obligation.

ON-DELYVERIT,
undelivered.

ONLEFUL,
unlawful.

ORDINANS, ordinance(s),
order(s).

OST,
host.

OUKIS,
weeks.

OUR-GILT,
overgilt, gilded over; of a book, gilt-edged.

OURE,
our, over.

OUTREDDAR,
to outred is to extricate or finish off ; the outreddar of a ship is thus the
person who fits it out for a voyage, or disburdens it of its cargo.

OXENGATE OF LAND,
an oxgate of land is thirteen
acres. cp. husbandland.

OY, OYE,
grandson, grand-daughter, sometimes niece.

PAIRT,
bairnis, of gear, a child's
share in a parent's estate, patrimony.

PAND or PANE,
for a bed, the draperies for the frame of a bed, hence counterpane.

PARAPRIS,
paraphrase.

PECES,
pieces, title deeds ; or any article regarded singly.

PEKIS,
pecks.

PENDICLE,
appurtenance, thing hung on
to, often a small portion of land.

PLANTATION OF KIRKS,
establishing and providing for churches in the various parishes.

PLENISHING
(insight, outsight, i.e., inside, outside), furniture of a house, stock on a
farm or estate.

PLET SLEVIS,
pleated sleeves.

PLEUGH,
plough.

PLEY,
plea, complaint at law.

PM'ES,
promes, promise.

PNTLIE,
contraction for " presently."

PNTS,
contraction for " presents."

POCING IRON,
poker.

POK VAD OF THE ROS,
A. Pok, pocket; waid, a dye ; ros or rowse, a kind of cloth.

PORTION NATURAL,
the share of a child in the estate of an intestate father. PORTIONER OF LAND, owner of a small bit
of land.

PORTIONERS,
heirs, daughters inheriting land jointly.

POT IRON,
iron for setting the pot on.

POYNDING,
attaching lands or goods for debt.

POYNDING, DECREET OF,
judicial order for poynding.

PRECEPT OF CLARE CONSTAT OR
SASINE. See s. Clare

constat.

PRESBYTERY
(presbetrie), ecclesiastical
court of the ministers and elders of a district of several parishes.

PRIMME,
first, chief, prime.

PRINLL.,
contraction for " principal."

PRISARIS,
apprisors, person who apprizes, puts up for sale to pay a creditor.

PRISIT,
apprised.

PROCES,
legal proceedings.

PROCREAT,
begotten.

PROCURATOR,
law agent or counsel.

PROPYN,
gift or present.

PROSECUTION OF SIGNATURES.
A signature is a warrant subscribed by the King for granting a charter. The
prosecution may mean the following out or obtaining of such a warrant.

PROTOCOL,
the first copy of an instrument, written by a notary in his protocol book.

PROTOMEDICUS,
the chief doctor.

PRYDIT,
provydit, provided.

PUNDIS,
pounds.

PUPILLARITY,
the state of being a pupil, i.e., between birth and fourteen years of age.

PURRING IRON,
poker.

PURS,
purse.

PURSUE,
persew, to prosecute a suit.

PURSUER,
plaintiff, complainer, in a law-suit.

Q Often short for con ; e.g., Qfess, confess.

QROF,
whereof.

QUHA,
who.

QUHAIR, quhar,
where.

QUHAIRBE,
whereby.

QUHAIRIN,
wherein.

QUHAIS,
whose.

QUHAM,
whom.

QUHAR,
where.

QUHARFOR,
wherefore.

QUHATSOMEVIR,
whatever, whatsoever.

QUHEILL,
while, wheel.

QUHEIT,
white.

QUHEN,
when.

QUHERIN,
wherein.

QUHIDDIR,
whether.

QUHIL,
till, until.

QUHILK,
whilk, which.

QUHOME,
whom.

QUHOU,
how.

QUHOUBEIT,
howbeit, howsoever.

QUHY,
why.

QUHYLE,
while.

QUOD,
quoth, said.

QUYT OF ENTRY,
quit of entry, having paid fees due to the superior

RACKEN,
reckon.

RAISING LETTERS,
taking out a legal summons.

RANKING, PROCESS OF,
process by which creditors are arranged in order of preference.

RASE
(base and opprobrious speeches), rash.

RATSCHE
(of a gun), lock.

RAXES,
iron instrument consisting of various links, on which the spit is turned at the
fire ; or per­haps tongs, rax
meaning to stretch.

REFT,
bereft.

REGALITY,
a territorial jurisdiction conferred by the crown, the holder being termed lord
of the regality, with power to hold courts.

REGENT,
master of a school or college.

REMANENT,
remaining.

RENUNCIATION,
(1) by an heir charged to enter on possession ; (2) of redeemable rights when
re­deemed ; (3) of a lease. Also the deed by which these are carried out.

REPONIT,
reponed, replaced.

RESIGNATION,
the act whereby a vassal returns the fen into the hands of the superior, either
to remain with the latter, or for the purpose of receiving it again by a new
grant. The deed recording the act.

RESTING,
remaining due, owing.

RETOUR,
an extract from chancery of the service of an heir to his progenitor.

RETOUR OF INQUEST,
the report of the jury sum­moned to find if an heir is duly entitled.

WARD,
(waird), feudal land tenure
rights conferred through military service obligations of tenants.

WARDATER,
the person receiving from the original ward
superior the enjoyment of lands held in ward.

WARD-HOLDING,
(waird), tenure of lands through
ward rights.

WARD LANDS,
(waird), lands held in ward.

WARD SUPERIOR,
(waird), the person entitled to
draw rent from the lands of a deceased vassal while the heir was still not infeft or remained a minor, thus
unable to perform military service for the ward
superior.

WARD VASSAL,
(waird), the person holding the
lands held in ward.

WARRANDICE,
assurance against any wrong to a right conveyed, arising from defect in the
title or otherwise. Warrandice lands,
lands conveyed provisionally in case the purchaser should be evicted from the
principal lands.

WAVERAND,
having doubtful title to.

WEAPON-SCHAWING,
muster for drill in arms.

WECHT,
weight.

WENSCHOAT
(wainscoat), oak furniture.

WEYING,
weighing.

WEYHOUSE,
house where the standard weights or measures were kept.

WHOIP,
whip.

WILL;
see s. Testament.

WINESCOTT,
wainscoat.

WITH,
in ownership, possession, of.

WOFFIN,
woven ?

WRANGIS,
wrongs, injuries.

WRITER,
any clerk or scribe, attorney.

WRITER TO THE SIGNET,
highest order of writers, having authority to prepare the writs which pass the
royal signet.

WUIP,
whip.

WYND,
a narrow street or passage.

WYSSIE OR WISSIE,
to inspect ; Fr., Visé.

YEARTAK,
a year's lease.

YOAK,
yoke.

YOUNGER,
often the title applied to the heir-apparent of someone with a territorial
designation forming part of his surname, or styled as a Scottish chief: "A,
younger of B".